Clytie

1785

Valentine Green

Artist, British, 1739 - 1813

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 35 x 40.4 cm (13 3/4 x 15 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 46.2 x 59.2 cm (18 3/16 x 23 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2001.118.11

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Whitman 1902, no. 244, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Christopher Lennox-Boyd; (Nicholas Stogdon, Oxford); purchased 2001 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1902

  • Whitman, Alfred. British Mezzotinters: Valentine Green. London: A.H. Bullen, 1902.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Painted by Maria Cosway; lower right in plate: Engraved by V. Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty & to the Elector Palatine; lower center in plate: CLYTIE. / "Nec fe movit humo, tantum spectabat euntis ora Dei; vultusque suos flectebat ad illum." Ovid / Published Decr. 1st 1785 by V. Green and Son, No. 29. Newman Street, Oxford Street London; lower right in plate: Se vend chez les Freres Torré, Marchands d'Estampes
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